On Aug 20, 11:19 am, geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not sure what you read, but for me (mostly number theory, numerical > analysis, and abstract algebra) zero-based indexing is quite common.
My background is in aerospace control engineering. I am certainly not familiar with the literature in pure mathematics, but I assume that the math textbooks I used on college used standard mathematical notation. If one-based indexing is becoming more common in the literature, I'll bet that is only because it is so widely used in computer programming -- not because the writers decided independently that it is a better notation. But that's just a guess on my part. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
